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Preparedness Training from the Center for Agriculture & Food Security & Preparedness

Preparedness Training from the Center for Agriculture & Food Security & Preparedness. Dr. Sharon Thompson, Director. Protecting Responders. Agriculture Emergency Responder Training Course Overview March 17-20, 2009. Agriculture Emergency Responder Training. 32 hrs

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Preparedness Training from the Center for Agriculture & Food Security & Preparedness

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  1. Preparedness Training from the Center for Agriculture & Food Security & Preparedness Dr. Sharon Thompson, Director

  2. Protecting Responders Agriculture Emergency Responder Training Course Overview March 17-20, 2009

  3. Agriculture Emergency Responder Training • 32 hrs • Provides performance response skills relative to the agriculture community • Covers accidental as well as intentional CBRNE events • Practical, hands on course culminating in a day long practical exercise • Joint training with the Center for Domestic Preparedness • Only Federally owned and operated Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Center

  4. Why AgERT? • U.S. agriculture is: • At growing risk due to the elevated threat of terrorism AND from foreign animal disease incursion. • Dependent on properly trained animal health professionals (non-traditional emergency responders), as well as traditional responders (e.g., fire fighters, emergency medical, hazmat teams, etc.). • Animal health professionals and Emergency Responders train the way they will be required to operate, i.e., together

  5. AgERT Target Audience • Federal, state and local agriculture emergency response personnel and traditional emergency responders • Private veterinary practitioners, veterinary medical students and university staff • Military veterinarians, FBI, tribal communities

  6. Course Objectives • Describe agroterrorism and its effects on humans, animals and the economy • Identify chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive hazards and relate them to potential agroterrorism • Demonstrate knowledge of agricultural-related epidemiology • Identify zoonotic diseases that may be used by terrorists

  7. Course Objectives • Describe response actions for an agroterrorism event, including the role of the responder within ICS • Describe various methods of animal restraint and euthanasia that may be used in an agricultural incident • Describe various methods of animal carcass disposal

  8. Course Objectives • Demonstrate how to utilize personal protective equipment in an agricultural incident • Demonstrate how to perform decontamination procedures in an agricultural response • Demonstrate how to perform a post decontamination survey and maintain crime scene preservation

  9. Introduction to Agroterrorism and Response CBRNE Hazards Epidemiology Zoonotic Diseases Foreign Animal Diseases Response Actions Animal Restraint and Euthanasia Animal Carcass Disposal Personal Protective Equipment– Levels B & C Decontamination Survey & Monitoring/ Crime Scene Preservation AgERT Practical Exercise AgERT Course Modules 11/4/04

  10. Crime Scene Preservation FBI 12-step evidence collection process: • Begins with preparation • Follows through to the release of the crime scene

  11. PPE Level B

  12. PPE Level C

  13. AgERT- Additional Key Information • Limited to 32 students • 2 hrs credit • UTCVM Faculty: Drs. Thompson, Welborn, Hopkins, Donnell • UT Extension: Dr Burden • CDP experts in crime scene preservation & personal protective equipment • Practical exercise held at Cherokee Farm

  14. AgERT- Additional Key Information • Registration- Ms. Ann White at awhite26@utk.edu or 974-0345 • Deadline February 27, 2009

  15. Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course • August 3-7, 2009 • Jointly sponsored with USDA/ APHIS • Will be offered as CEM course for credit • U.S. and international expert speakers

  16. Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course • Intended audience: veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, Extension agents and other allied professionals

  17. Foot and Mouth Disease Rift Valley Fever Exotic Newcastle Disease BSE and other TSEs Nipah, Hendra Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Rinderpest Screw Worm Avian Influenza Heartwater African Horsesickness Classical Swine Fever African Swine Fever Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course

  18. Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course Additional topics to be covered include: • International Animal Disease Control • The Role of the OIE in International Trade • Companion Animals: Sentinels for Bioterrorism • Mass Animal Care in a Disaster Setting • Federal and State Response to Foreign Animal Diseases

  19. Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course • Draft agenda and registration rates to be available by March • Reduced student registration rates will be available • Additional information will be available at http://www.vet.utk.edu/cafsp/

  20. Questions?srthompson@utk.edu974-7445

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